Natural history of hepatitis C virus carriers with persistently normal aminotransferase levels

Gastroenterology

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 760-764

  Persico, Marcello ^a   Persico, Eliana ^a   Suozzo, Rosalba ^a   Conte, Salvatore ^a   De Seta, Massimiliano ^a   Coppola, Leonardo ^a   Palmentieri, Bruno ^a   Sasso, Ferdinando Carlo ^a   Torella, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; AGED; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS CARRIER;

EID: 85005773666     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: 15280012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5085(00)70145-4     Document Type: Article

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